By Bill Hendrick
High Waist Circumference in Kids Increases Risk of Heart-Related Disorders
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By Daniel J. DeNoon
Study Shows Long-Term Health Problems May Follow E. coli Illness
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By Denise Mann
Group Pushes for New Laws, More Study on Common Chemicals
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By Bill Hendrick
Many Americans Say the Weak Economy Adds to the Financial and Emotional Strain of Managing Chronic Illnesses
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By Katrina Woznicki
Case Study Suggests a Link Between a Man’s Asthma Attack and His Use of the Social Networking Site
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By WILLIAM NEUMAN
And now Kelli Estrella, a farmer and award-winning cheesemaker whose pastureland is tucked into a bend of the Wynoochee River here, has become a potent symbol in a contentious national debate over the safety of food produced by small farmers and how mu
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By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D.
Forgoing a potentially life-saving medical procedure may be easier at age 94 than age 54, but for my patient George Pollack it was a wrenching decision anyway. Suffering from a severe foot ulcer that would not heal, he was told his only chance of a cur
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By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
At the start of my surgical training, I helped to care for a middle-aged patient who was struggling to recuperate from a major operation on his aorta, the body’s central artery, and the blood vessels to his legs. As the days wore on, the surgeon
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
Women who are stressed at work are more likely than other working women to have a
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By ABBY GOODNOUGH
The Food and Drug Administration cracked down Wednesday on four manufacturers of caffeinated alcoholic drinks, giving them 15 days to stop adding caffeine to the products or stop selling them altogether.
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By JACQUI GODDARD
The first known case of cholera in the United States linked to the outbreak in Haiti was confirmed Wednesday by health officials who said a southwest Florida woman contracted the disease while visiting family in a region at the heart of Haiti’s e
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By Kate Kelland
Use of mild painkillers such as paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen during pregnancy may partly account for a sharp increase in male reproductive disorders in recent decades, according to a study.
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By Reuters
The children of mothers who ate a lot of peanuts while pregnant may be at an increased risk of developing an allergy to the nut - and the more peanuts the mothers ate, the greater the chances, a study found.
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By Reuters
Babies who undergo a difficult birth and are delivered using forceps are more likely to develop problems such as aggression during childhood compared with those born by Caesarean section, according to a study in China.
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By Shari Roan
Heavy smoking in middle age more than doubles the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia later in life, one of the first long-term studies on the issue claims.
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By Catherine Saint Louis
A daily shower is an ingrained habit for most people. Many would no sooner disclose they had not showered in days than admit infidelity. But Jenefer Palmer, 55, cheerfully admits she doesn't shower or shampoo daily and doesn't use deodorant. Ever.
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By Lucy Mangan
Girls are top! That is the conclusion of yet another study, this time by US researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah, that purports to show that having loving siblings of either gender - but especially girls - is the best protection against adol
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By Karen Kaplan
If you're a regular reader of Booster Shots, you are well aware that drinking lots of sugar-sweetened beverages is bad for your health. Primarily, those empty calories do damage to your waistline and are a major contributor to the steady weight gain of
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By Reuters
Have high blood pressure? Australian scientists may have a new solution -- but it won't win you a lot of friends.
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By BARRY BEARAK
South Africa, already home to 5.7 million H.I.V.-positive people, more than any other nation, can expect an additional five million to become infected during the next two decades even if the nation more than doubles its already considerable financing f
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